Haruko Sugimura

Haruko Sugimura (杉村 春子 Sugimura Haruko, January 6, 1909 – April 4, 1997) was a Japanese stage and film actress, best known for her appearances in the movies of Yasujiro Ozu and Mikio Naruse from the late 1940s to the early 1960s. In the West, her most famous role was that of Shige, the elderly couple's hairdresser daughter in Ozu's Tokyo Story (1953). After the war, she was highly praised by such masters as Akira Kurosawa, Keisuke Kinoshita, Yasujiro Ozu, Mikio Naruse, Shiro Toyoda, Kenji Mizoguchi, and Tadashi Imai for her natural and realistic acting. In particular, she was a regular in Yasujiro Ozu's films, appearing in nine of his films.
Cast

The Scent of Incense
Taromaru

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Unknown

The Day England Falls
Unknown

Red Beard
Kin, the madam

Jidanya
Unknown

Late Spring
Masa Taguchi

Early Spring
Tamako Tamura

Kwaidan
Madame (segment "In a Cup of Tea")

G-Men of Japan
Unknown

Youth After School
Ayako

The End of Summer
Katou Shige

Good Morning
Kikue Haraguchi

As Long as There's Tomorrow
Unknown

Late Chrysanthemums
Kin

No Regrets for Our Youth
Madame Noge

Four Seasons of Women
Osone

Musume to watashi
Unknown

Repast
Matsu Murata

Flowing
Someka

Their Legacy
Unknown

Floating Weeds
Oyoshi

The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
Unknown

Rokujō yukiyama tsumugi
Ine's Mother

Tokyo Story
Shige Kaneko

Early Summer
Tami Yabe

Tokyo Twilight
Shigeko Takeuchi

Princess Yang Kwei-fei
Princess Yen-chun

Jun'ai monogatari kusa no mi
Unknown

Night Scandal
Hatsu Mimura

Samurai Assassin
Tsuru

A Last Note
Yoko Morimoto

The Broken Commandment
School master's wife

She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum
Masao's mother

Morning for the Osone Family
Fusako Osone

Summer Clouds
Mother

Only Child
Unknown

The Petrified Forest
Unknown

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1
Oshin

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
Oshin

White Heron
Unknown

A Diary of Our Love
Unknown

Spring Awakens
Unknown

The Story of Shunkin
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The Romance of Yushima
Unknown
Umi no tora
Unknown

The Conspirator
Unknown
Kanchō umi no bara
Unknown

The Lights of Asakusa
Marieda Matsushima
愛情の旋風
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Dorei kōjō
Unknown

Army
Setsu

The Gambler's Code
Oroku

Freedom School
Unknown

Hadaka no Machi
Unknown

A Descendant of Urashima Taro
Unknown

Temptation
Tokie

Samurai of the Great Earth
Unknown

The Written Face
Self

The Crowded Train
Otome, the mother

Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Kayo Tani
Umi o yobu koe
Unknown
The Rokumeikan
Unknown
The Rokumeikan
Unknown

Buddha
Vaidehi

Akumyo: Notorious Dragon
Unknown

Fireworks Over the Sea
Kono Kujirai

Policeman's Diary
Moyo Sugita

Listen to the Voices of the Sea
Unknown

Till We Meet Again
Suga Ono

The Rainbow-Colored Flower
Koyabu

The Strange Tale of Oyuki
Kafu's Mother

Deep River Melody
Unknown
Life of Geisha
Unknown
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
Sonoe

The Wiser Age
Aki

The Woman Who Touched Legs
Pickpocket Haruko

Spring on Leper's Island
Unknown

Great X
Taka

Goodbye to Glory
Fukunaga's mother Yuki

I Lived, But...
Self

Mother
Yoshie

Runway to Hell
Okuma

Reminiscence
Chikako

Children Hand in Hand
Unknown

The Three Treasures
Narrator

The Fossil
Itsuki's stepmother

Beauty the Enemy
Fusa Yoshino

The Daphne
Aki Ueno (the four sisters' mother)

An Autumn Afternoon
Tomoko Sakuma

Wedding Day
Unknown

The Navy
Unknown

Sakura-tai Chiru
Unknown

Forbidden Path
Unknown

Sunflower Girl
Unknown

Namiko
Unknown

Three-Fingered Detective
Unknown

With Beauty and Sorrow
Otoko's Mother

Onna no hanamichi
Unknown

An Inlet of Muddy Water
Unknown

Nightingale
Midwife Yae

The Glorious Days
Unknown

The Wind Blows Twice
Unknown

Beauty of Life
Unknown

Tale of Jiro
Unknown
Ōhinata-mura
Unknown

Flower's Yearning
Ikegami Rie